BIG PROCESSIONS FROM DAWN

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 May 1935, Page 5

BIG PROCESSIONS FROM DAWN

TRAINS AND TRAMS PACKED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received* 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON. May. 5. IT is a brilliant mid-summer day to-day, and meteorologists 1 still stick to a forecast of fine, warm weather for the jubilee celebrations to-morrow. , r , London was transformed to-day and is not the least like a normal sabbath, which is quiet between daylight and midnight. Every man, woman and child resident in greater London’s suburbs, reinforced by . thousands of their country cousins, poured into the area bounded by St. Paul s in t e eas; , -Hyde Park corner in the west, the Marble Arch in the south, and Victoria Station in the south. There has been no Sunday like it in living memory. From dawn family parties in decoiated cars began to arrive, determined to see the whole ot the central decorated arerf. Comparative peace reigned afterwards. Every pavement became increasingly thronged, and everyone of Britain’s many dialects was heard. It was a good humoured, slow moving crowd of family parties. To-morrow night the world’s greatest city will burst into full brilliance, when 350 buildings will be floodlit from 9.15 until midnight. The decorations have turned each roadway into a rainbow. _ T r? The Empire offices make notable displays. The. New Zealand flag, with the Southern Cross, decorates the office of that Dominion, surmounting two striking enlargements, with heads aslant, of a greenstone Tiki. . , Trains and trams are arriving all day packed with sightseers.